DCS Software Release 7.4.0 Build 137
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will this affect me today?
Money Order start & end numbers
printed on Store Daily Sheet
Quantity in drawer is now displayed for inventory items
Inventory transfer directly from teller drawer - 'Daily Work'
Money Order confirmation at teller and vault closeout
ATS statistical reporting
Voided money order report
Money order lookup report detail
Receipt # not shown for bills paid by check
Daily/History reports separate fee & charge
BPS closeout report Reprint option
BPS company setup simplify maintenance of settings
BPS company setup sort company list alphabetically
Receipt printer allow use of laser printer for receipts
ICE card main office customer search
ICE card verify customer registration information
ICE Gift force customer registration for
purchase of 3 or more cards
PayXone a new type of loadable, prepaid card
Extra form feed issue - fixed
Mileage not required when filling out 'Sticker Only' forms
CHECK 21 IS HERE!!!
Bug Fix Run time error when scanning
back side of check
New and Improved Real Time Verification
Making upgrades easier
Close all DCS Applications
How will this affect me today?
ATS Inventory transfer directly from teller drawer 'Daily Work'
An improvement has been made to allow for a more efficient sale of an
inventory item that you currently do not have in your drawer (i.e postage stamps). When you run out of inventory in your
drawer during the day, and the customer needs that inventory item, it is no
longer necessary to go to the vault to transfer the item(s). Simply selecting
the desired menu item to sell will prompt you to perform the inventory transfer
from the vault or another teller drawer. This allows for a quicker customer
transaction and a more efficient employee.
ATS money order confirmation at teller and vault closeout
For instances when the ATS auto-generated money orders jam the printer at teller/vault closeout, an improvement has been made to allow the user to void and reprint the bad money orders during the closeout procedure.
BPS Receipt number not shown for bills paid by check
Receipt and/or reference numbers will be displayed for bills paid by cash only. These numbers will no longer be displayed for payments made by check.
IL-License module users
Extra form feed issue has been resolved. It is no longer necessary to feed the form through a 3rd time in order to print the second form.
Mileage not required when filling out 'Sticker Only' forms
ICE Card users
When the registering a customer for an ICE card sale, the system will now check your main office if the customer is not found in your store's local database.
After selection of the above customer is made, the system will now prompt the teller asking if the customer address information has been verified.
The system now forces the teller to register the customer when selling 3 or more ICE Gift cards in a single transaction.
ATS
Money order starting & ending numbers printed on Store Daily sheet
The Store Daily Sheet will now include the starting and ending money order numbers next to the total sales figure.
Quantity in drawer now
displayed for inventory items
To help keep inventory in balance, the drawer quantity is now displayed at
the time of transaction. It can be seen
next to the type of inventory, in blue at the top of the screen.
Inventory transfer directly from teller drawer 'Daily Work'
An improvement has been made to allow for a more efficient sale of an inventory item that you currently do not have in your drawer (i.e postage stamps). When you run out of inventory in your drawer during the day, and the customer needs that inventory item, it is no longer necessary to go to the vault to transfer the item(s). Simply selecting the desired menu item to sell will prompt you to perform the inventory transfer from the vault or another teller drawer. This allows for a quicker customer transaction and a more efficient employee.
Money order confirmation at teller / vault closeouts
During teller and vault closeouts, you will now have the ability to void and reprint money orders that may have jammed on the printer. After the money orders are sent to the printer, you will be prompted with the money order numbers/amounts that printed and will be given the option to reprint. If it is necessary to reprint, you will have the ability to edit the next money order number and send the selected money orders to the printer again. ATS will automatically void the original money order(s). If all of the original money orders printed successfully, simply click 'Close' to bypass the reprint screen.
ATS statistical reporting
New Statistical reporting has been added to your ATS system under the 'ATS System Reports' option in the vault. This reporting option enables the business owner to obtain an accurate view of business and/or teller production during any given business day.
MOPS
Voided money order report
This report will provide you with a complete listing of all money orders voided during the selected day(s).
Money order lookup report - detail
This report will provide you with a complete detailed listing of all money orders printed during the selected day(s). This option allows you to view the Remitter and Payee on the money order, and also can be exported to Microsoft Excel.
BPS
Bug Fix ICE Card
Before this release, when 2 or more checks were cashed in the same transaction as an ICE card, a runtime error occurred. This has been fixed.
Receipt number no longer displayed for bills paid by check
Receipt and/or reference numbers will be displayed for bills paid by cash only. These numbers will no longer be displayed for payments made by check.
Daily / History summary reports separate fee & charge
The Daily and History summary reports in BPS now separate the fee and charge for each transaction. Previously, the fee and charge were being combined on the report.
Closeout report reprint option
You now have the ability to reprint a BPS closeout report for any business day.
Company setup simplify settings maintenance & alpha sort of companies
Maintenance of the fees for your billers in BPS has been made much easier with this release. You now have the ability to either globally assign the fees for all of your billers at one time or can change the fee for particular billers using the quick fee link button.
For ATS customers, the ability to add or change the way a liability money order will function has been made easy using the quick liability link button.
The ability to sort your biller list alphabetically with the click of a button has been added.
Receipt printer allow use of laser printer for receipts
For any of your POSA-activated products, such as *Coinstar pins or *ICE Card sales, you now have the ability to print the receipts for those products to a laser printer. Previously, it may have been necessary to use a designated thermal receipt printer to accomplish this task.
ICE Card main office customer search
When registering an ICE Card customer, the system will now check your main office to see if the customer has been registered at any of your other locations if he/she was not found in your local database. Previously, the system only checked your local database.
ICE Card verify customer registration information
The system will now prompt the teller asking them to verify the customer's address information. This is done to assure the ICE Card is delivered to the correct address and the customer registering for the card is who they say they are.
ICE Card force customer registration for purchase of 3 or more Gift cards
It is now mandatory to register customers who purchase 3 or more Gift cards in a single transaction.
PayXone Card
A new type of prepaid, loadable card is now availablethe PayXone Heritage Card.
License Module
Extra form feed issue - fixed
Extra form feed issue has been resolved. It is no longer necessary to feed the form through a 3rd time in order to print the second form.
Mileage not required when filling out 'Sticker Only' forms
It is no longer necessary to enter the vehicle's mileage when filling out the Sticker Only forms.
SigCard
Check 21 is here!!!
DCS is proud to introduce the new Check 21 Solution. You no longer need to mail your checks to the
bank; simply follow your normal check cashing procedure and the check images will
automatically be transmitted to the bank.
Collected funds are available the next day by
To get started, contact DCS sales for more information. 847.498.9955 ext.320
Bug Fix run time error when scanning back side of check
As the check is scanned, the Magtek reads the
New and improved Real Time Check Verification
To help prevent fraud, the
Together, the information gathered:
· Recognizes closed accounts
· Recognizes accounts in overdraft
· Recognizes inactive or retired routing numbers by merger or acquisition
· Identifies valid routing numbers that do not accept ACH items
· Recognizes non-DDA accounts
The setup screen, seen below, allows you to run this verification based on certain criteria.
For more information on Real Time Verification, please contact DCS Sales at 847.498.9955 ext.351.
Miscellaneous
Making upgrades easier
DCS releases new versions of our software on a quarterly basis. As you know, the newest version of the software will download automatically onto your computers and prompt the user Would you like to upgrade now?
While the process of upgrading should take no more than 15 to 30 minutes, this can cause a setback should the store be extremely busy.
As of the June 1st release, the prompt to upgrade will not be displayed on the days surrounding the 1st of the month. Because this tends to be a busy time for our customers, the new software version will remain hidden on the last 2 days of the month and the first 3 days of the month. The upgrade can manually be installed on these days by clicking Install New Version (if available) from the Help menu.
Close all DCS applications
Upon installing this version, a new icon will appear on the screen which reads Close DCS Applications. This was created to immediately close all DCS programs in case of an error which causes the computer to freeze.
Simply double click the icon above to terminate all DCS modules.